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Determined to undo what they called “the wrenching changes inflicted on America by Trump’s tax cuts,” Sens. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) are proposing a “Long-Term Unemployment Act.” Their bill would create a federal program to reduce the number of private sector jobs and provide new government jobs for those who become unemployed. A problem caused by Trump’s policies is that there are currently more jobs than people to fill them. “The present surplus of jobs is precisely the worst of the wrenching changes we aim to rectify,” Wyden said. “Generations of Americans have gotten used to...

GRAYLING — Few buildings are taller than two stories in downtown Grayling. That soon could change, as a developer works to construct 42 apartments in a five-story building on a vacant corner. Across the street, developers are evaluating whether it’s feasible to open an $8.3 million, four-story boutique hotel in a building that has become a local eyesore. There’s another project brimming downtown, one so preliminary city planning officials won’t share the details yet. “We’ve actually never seen investment like this all at once in Grayling,” said Rae Gosling, Grayling’s Main Street program director, who has worked for years to...

Some stories can be judged as too gruesome to show on prime-time television—for instance, the horrifying scenes of desperate people jumping from the Twin Towers on September 11. Or the ISIS beheadings a few years ago. Most American networks chose not to show those disturbing scenes. In other cases, the media will choose not to report stories that go against the grain of a certain political narrative. Self-defense stories are a prime example.

California residents, facing a mandatory background check on ammunition sales starting in July, will need to bring an updated ID, passport or birth certificate with them to buy ammo. (Photo: Chris Eger/Guns.com)With just over a week to go before a looming ammunition control law takes effect, California officials are backing a new requirement that could leave many unable to buy ammo. Prop. 63, approved by voters in 2016 after an effort by now-Gov. Gavin Newsom, requires a background check be conducted on all sales of ammunition in the state. Set to go live on July 1, the California Department of...

Due to the 2018 midterm elections, America no longer has a functional Congress. About the only things getting done in Congress, such as judicial confirmations, are happening in the Senate and don’t require the House. The House, now controlled by Democrats led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, might as well go home. To appreciate just how worthless the new House is, consider....

In love, war and making money, timing is everything. But unlike love and money, war is always a last resort. Ever since President Carter decided to abandon the Shah of Iran in 1979, Iran has been a thorn in the side of the United States and much of the West. Instead of a pro-West Shah, we now deal with a group of crazed Muslim clerics headed by the craziest of them all, Sayyed Ali Hosseini Khamenei who, like his predecessor, is determined to keep Iran in the 7th century, and conducts an orchestra of millions that regularly sings ‘Death to...

Start the Counter Revolution that will take your country back and start it today The only way to take back your country (any country) begins and ends with reclaiming your own hometown by running your own candidates for mayors, councillors and school board trustees in the very next election. It’s an idea for a Counter Revolution, whose time came a long time ago but has been virtually ignored until now. It is not at the federal level of government where the shift to socialism can be stopped in its tracks, but at the largely ignored civic or municipal level.

When it comes to improving fact-checking, most of the focus tends to be on how fact checkers select the claims they examine, the sources they turn to in determining “truth” and the strength of their arguments. While it receives less attention, the editorializing language fact checkers use can be just as harmful to the public’s trust in their work. Browse through the first five pages of FactCheck.org’s Barack Obama archive and fact checks of the former president’s statements are headlined with relatively clinical terms such as “misrepresents,” “misleading” and “cherry-picks.” In contrast, the first five pages of the site’s Donald...

VIDEO In this video I show how I saved $37 on 11.55 pounds of steak. Anybody can do this and enjoy eating steak while paying only a small fraction of the usual price.

Everybody does.Let’s start here: Julia Roberts reveals original ending for ‘Pretty Woman’ — and you’d be shocked.In an interview in Variety magazine this week Julia Roberts revealed that the original ending of Pretty Woman as written was anything but the fairy tale ending of “prostitute-falls-in-love-with-a-rich-john-and-they-both-live-happily-ever-after.” She explained that the original script was “really dark and the ending was really heavy.” In fact the original script ended with Robert’s character, the prostitute Vivian Ward, left sprawled out in a dirty alley where Richard Gere’s character, Edward Lewis, had chucked her out of the car. For good measure, and to get the...

With restraint being the apparent messaging from Washington in recent hours, Iran seems to be sending out its own messaging in that vein.... White House National Security Adviser John Bolton will be in Israel Sunday.... "You expect black people to vote for you" That was a sample of the response that Democrat presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg got in South Bend, Indiana Friday.... The murder conviction of a Mississipi man, tried six times in a quadruple murder case from 1996. thrown out by the US Supreme Court in a 7-2 decision Friday... Oregon's Democrat Governor Kate Brown ordering Oregon State Police...

The list has been divided into the top 10 hot liberals, centrists and conservatives of the female persuasion. Age is no barrier. Hot is hot. Some deserving women were left off of the list solely to give others a chance.

...Leading up to the vote, national pro-life organization the Susan B. Anthony List (SBA List) conducted a poll that found 77 percent of Rhode Island voters oppose allowing abortion up until birth. According to the survey, 73 percent oppose late-term abortions, including 63 percent of Democrats, 77 percent of independents, and 89 percent of Republicans. The poll also found 80 percent of Rhode Island women voters are opposed to abortion up until birth as are 62 percent of self-described “pro-choice” voters. “It is extremely disappointing to see Rhode Island lawmakers cave to pressure from the abortion lobby to pass this...

This week the profoundly ignorant Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) asserted that persons illegally entering the United States "are being held in concentration camps." Among the atrocities inflicted are "widespread boredom and inappropriate menus. Few know that there is a serious shortage of TVs and that meals are prepared without considering the ethnicity of the recipients." When critics objected to her characterization, she alleged that "most people don't know that the government put Japanese people in concentration camps during WWII." This slander was joined by nattering nincompoop George Takei. The aging Star Trek actor and gay-rights agitator alleged that "I know...

President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign manager predicted in an interview with CBS News that the president would win multiple swing states, including at least three he lost in 2016, if the presidential election were held this week. Brad Parscale, Trump’s campaign chief, said the president would win Georgia, Texas, North Carolina, Florida, South Carolina, New Hampshire, New Mexico and Nevada if the election were held this week. All eight are considered to be up for grabs, to varying degrees, in 2020 and the latter three were all won by Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016. and Trump won Florida by 1.2...

George Nader has a long history of being a pedophile that stretches back until at least 1984. Democrats have forgotten his past, considering he was a key player in the phony Russian-collusion investigation. Unlike many other politicians that have been accused of such, George Nader has been ensnared in multiple court cases involving child pornography. The paper trail of this behavior starts back in 1984, when the US Post Office discovered that Nader was ordering magazines that depicted underage boys performing sexual acts.

Many times over the last 8-10 years, I've seen some composite photos showing headshots of all the main Dem criminal players of recent years: Obama, Hillary, Holder, Lynch, Pelosi, etc. Now, when I need such a picture, I can't find it! If you know of such a picture, could you please post a link? Tried using google, but either I can't find the right combo of keywords or -- more likely -- the google algorithm is censoring what I'm looking for. Thanks all.

VIDEO CNN's counterterrorism analyst Phil Mudd seems to perpetrate quite a bit of his own mentally deranged terror on the studio set as you can see in this compilation of his frequent temper tantrum meltdowns.

Hope Hicks spent yesterday being abused and harassed by Jerry Nadler and his gang of misogynist perverts. Three times Nadler referred to Hope Hicks as "Ms. Lewandowski"Nadler "apologized", saying he was "preoccupied." By what, we do not know. Personally, I think it was quite intentional and misogynistic. Others have suggested that Nadler is suffering from diminished faculties. It was sexual harassment: The perverted democrats, irritated by Hicks' refusal to answer questions about the White House, then turned to another issue- Hicks' love life. Devin Nunes: “Nobody quite understood why she was back in the U.S. Capitol yesterday doing essentially another deposition,”...